WORD GROUPS

Year Published: 1970s

Description: This 1970s educational film "Word Groups" is by BFA Educational Media. It uses the Sierra Railway and in particular locomotive 28, to teach words and sentence structure to children. Locomotive 28 is a 2-8-0 steam locomotive owned and operated by the California State Railroad Museum in Jamestown, California. 00:09 The Sierra Railroad locomotive number 28 puffs and steams along a track pulling passenger cars. Text on screen reads “Back,” “Track,” “Black,” and “Gray.” The train stops and the engineer dismounts to check over the engine. The narrator explains they are looking for words about the train trip that fit into word families. One crew member re-attached cable to the bell, another checks all around the wheels and undercarriage of the engine. Steam pours out from various release points on the engine. 01:04 The crew boards the engine cab and prepares to start the train moving again. The fire in the firebox rages and the train starts up again. The engineer rings the bell. Steam whistle blows. The break is released. A conductor indicates all clear. The train starts rolling forward. 01:44 A crew member fills the boiler with water from a water tank. The train slowly rolls along the track, pulling passenger cars including an open air flatbed fitted for stand-up passengers, while the narrator explains the next word family ending with “ain.” 02:16 A child helps open a package for a younger child. Families enjoy the ride as the train moves at good speed along the track through wooded terrain.02:41 The locomotive pulls into a yard and couples with passenger cars. Children and families board. Kids sit on bench seats eating snacks as the narrator assembles a new set a family words including “Fright,” “Flight,” “Right,” and “Tight.” 03:20 Footage of children walking through one of the cars reverses, showing kids and family appear to dismount the train. 03:36 The footage resumes forward motion and again families and children board the train. 03:40 A group of kids crowd onto bench seats, enjoying the ride. 03:43 A uniformed conductor fraternizes with passengers as the train proceeds through woodland, past rolling hills, barns, farmland, country roads. It crosses a timber Trestle Bridge as the narrator explains word family groupings. 04:48 Repeat footage of the conductor taking tickets as passengers board the train, and children sharing a bench seat. 05:24 Steam pours from the engine chimney and the train passes along a stream as the “eam” family of words (team, steam, stream) are superimposed. 05:36 cattle run along dry river beds. 05:58 A brakeman operates a railroad switch to allow the locomotive to switch tracks while the narrator explains the next word family of “Cow,” “Snow,” “Now,” “Know,” “How.” 06:41 Passengers in the open flat car enjoy the train ride and view of passing farms, barns, and animal pens. 06:57 The train rounds a bend. Smoke pours from the smokestack. 07:11 The train passes a mill as the train’s steam whistle blasts. The train passes by roads, cars, towns, horses and farms. 07:31 The train travels along track and freezes frame. 08:05 The freeze frame releases and the train moves forward past the camera. 08:19 END. Sierra Railroad No. 28 is a 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1922 for the Sierra Railway. The locomotive was designed to haul heavy gravel and freight trains for raising the Don Pedro Melones and O'Shaughnessy dams. After the dams' completion in the mid-1920's No. 28 hauled the most freight traffic on the railroad's lower division. After completion of the project, #28 returned to hauling freight until dieselisation in 1955, when it went into storage at the Jamestown roundhouse, occasionally steamed up for filming and excursions.Today the engine is still at Railtown 1897.

Complete Record: This 1970s educational film "Word Groups" is by BFA Educational Media. It uses the Sierra Railway and in particular locomotive 28, to teach words and sentence structure to children. Locomotive 28 is a 2-8-0 steam locomotive owned and operated by the California State Railroad Museum in Jamestown, California. 00:09 The Sierra Railroad locomotive number 28 puffs and steams along a track pulling passenger cars. Text on screen reads “Back,” “Track,” “Black,” and “Gray.” The train stops and the engineer dismounts to check over the engine. The narrator explains they are looking for words about the train trip that fit into word families. One crew member re-attached cable to the bell, another checks all around the wheels and undercarriage of the engine. Steam pours out from various release points on the engine. 01:04 The crew boards the engine cab and prepares to start the train moving again. The fire in the firebox rages and the train starts up again. The engineer rings the bell. Steam whistle blows. The break is released. A conductor indicates all clear. The train starts rolling forward. 01:44 A crew member fills the boiler with water from a water tank. The train slowly rolls along the track, pulling passenger cars including an open air flatbed fitted for stand-up passengers, while the narrator explains the next word family ending with “ain.” 02:16 A child helps open a package for a younger child. Families enjoy the ride as the train moves at good speed along the track through wooded terrain.02:41 The locomotive pulls into a yard and couples with passenger cars. Children and families board. Kids sit on bench seats eating snacks as the narrator assembles a new set a family words including “Fright,” “Flight,” “Right,” and “Tight.” 03:20 Footage of children walking through one of the cars reverses, showing kids and family appear to dismount the train. 03:36 The footage resumes forward motion and again families and children board the train. 03:40 A group of kids crowd onto bench seats, enjoying the ride. 03:43 A uniformed conductor fraternizes with passengers as the train proceeds through woodland, past rolling hills, barns, farmland, country roads. It crosses a timber Trestle Bridge as the narrator explains word family groupings. 04:48 Repeat footage of the conductor taking tickets as passengers board the train, and children sharing a bench seat. 05:24 Steam pours from the engine chimney and the train passes along a stream as the “eam” family of words (team, steam, stream) are superimposed. 05:36 cattle run along dry river beds. 05:58 A brakeman operates a railroad switch to allow the locomotive to switch tracks while the narrator explains the next word family of “Cow,” “Snow,” “Now,” “Know,” “How.” 06:41 Passengers in the open flat car enjoy the train ride and view of passing farms, barns, and animal pens. 06:57 The train rounds a bend. Smoke pours from the smokestack. 07:11 The train passes a mill as the train’s steam whistle blasts. The train passes by roads, cars, towns, horses and farms. 07:31 The train travels along track and freezes frame. 08:05 The freeze frame releases and the train moves forward past the camera. 08:19 END. Sierra Railroad No. 28 is a 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1922 for the Sierra Railway. The locomotive was designed to haul heavy gravel and freight trains for raising the Don Pedro Melones and O'Shaughnessy dams. After the dams' completion in the mid-1920's No. 28 hauled the most freight traffic on the railroad's lower division. After completion of the project, #28 returned to hauling freight until dieselisation in 1955, when it went into storage at the Jamestown roundhouse, occasionally steamed up for filming and excursions.Today the engine is still at Railtown 1897.

Transcription

[Music] still on the track the smoke is black the smoke is gray no no no no stop the train I thought you understood well the smoke is gray yes but it was black a moment ago uh engineer would you check the train while I explain see we're trying to find words about the train trip that fit into word families in what families word families for example the a family what's an A A the letters at the end of all these words AC c k the ACT family oh I see not o i a k uh no I mean I see I understand good then you know that a word family is a group of words that all have the same letters at the end like back track black yes that's easy let's do it again I'm ready I'm ready good we'll try a different word family this time see if you can tell what family it is okay all right get the train ready we'll try it again okay start the train are you ready oh yeah yeah uhhuh yeah remember now it's going to be a different word family oh yeah yeah uh-huh yeah all right now here comes the train uh it is not a plane no no no no no stop the train engineer we're going to need a little time to discuss this so fill the train with water and then just continue with the trip while I explain about a so it's plain in his brain now then why aren't train t r a i n mhm and plain p l a n e in the same word family cuz cuz I know that because they don't have the same letters at the end I knew I knew that but wait a minute they sound the same yes they do but words have to have the same spelled ending to be in the same word family aha now I understand it is plain that the plane in my brain was not Plaine uh yes ah now I can do it I'm ready I'm ready try me all right bring the train back everybody aboard we're going to start from the beginning of the trip oh good now remember on this trip we're looking for word families words with the same ending letter I know I know like oh what a fright to walk up a flight of stairs and turn right all packed in tight and then have a bite of something to e no no no no no everybody off the train something to I I got excited and bite well what's wrong with bite oh it doesn't have the name ending letters so it would be in a different word family right one more chance all right everybody back on new word family you ready ready we're taking a ride H the conductors by our side very good the windows are wide so the scenery can't hide wonderful now now do you see do you understand what you're doing well for goodness sake what a question do I understand what I'm doing well do you no you're taking the family name of the word like I and you're changing only the beginning letters and making brand new words now watch Ride side wide hide I did that is that all right of of course it is hey this is fun you're doing very well you understand word families now we've done the ACT family stack black track the a family train brain plane the I family fright flight right tight and now the ey family ride wide side hide say isn't that the Johnson family there uh I don't know I think I recognize Bobby hey Bobby he can't hear you this is only a film oh okay now here we go let's work as a team with the word family e add an S and it's Steam and an r and it's stream very good all right another word family ready or not I see a cow running in the snow no no no no stop the cow what did I do now there's no snow but you did give an example of a word family with two sounds did you know I did how uh Breakman switch the train to another track while I explain you see old W has the sound of ow as in cow now and how and the sound of O as in snow and no oh you see even though these words have two different sounds they're still in the same word family because their ending letters are the same I think I understand good say are there many word families like this with two sounds no just a few oh good hey there's only two in the second row row good for you you do understand okay let's join the trip new word family oh there's a man on the road and he's riding a toad that's a horse I know I was only being silly you should be ashamed of yourself hurry up now film's almost over our last chance around the bend you can see the end of the train it's plain look at the stack the smoke is black and gray I'll say look there's a mill it's not on a hill hear the whistle blast hey this is too fast I'm Glad You Came say what's your name look there's a town oh please slow down help I want out please don't shout I'll call my mom I'll call my pop no no no no no stop the film I thought you understood this Mom and Pop don't have the same ending letters but they're in the same family but that's a people family we're talking about word families word families yes words that have the same ending letters like track and stack oh uh look we'll play a game to learn this uh when the train comes I'll say a sentence with track in it and then you say a sentence with a word that has the same ending letters in it oh what a good idea all right now here comes the train do you know what to do oh yeah yeah uh-huh yeah all right now the trains on the track uh uh smoke comes from the stack

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